[ExI] ufos and gentle things was: RE: Optical illusion tricks you into seeing different colors

[William Flynn Wallace]

Hey, it is better to be obscene than no scene at all. spike
"Women should be obscene and not heard."  bill w

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 12:54 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] ufos and gentle things was: RE: Optical illusion
> tricks you into seeing different colors
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> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 9:50 AM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> after suggesting 'eff the ineffable' is a source of confusion and
> frustration (it is for me)
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> >…If you're looking for reasons to steer away from that term, it should
> perhaps also be noted that "eff" and "eff the ineffable" are used as
> semi-polite versions of certain obscene, sex-related terms in certain
> circles.  Adrian
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> Hey, it is better to be obscene than no scene at all.
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> If I may risk going off in a direction having nothing to do with qualia
> (which I already did anyway) consider please the following 2 scenario
> thought experiment.
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> Scenario 1: imagine a restaurant meal you like and a setting you enjoy.
> Get crazy-starving hungry, get that meal take out, go to that location.
> For instance, our local park is perfectly maintained, Burger King, huge
> greasy whopper, long salty fries with ranch dressing, tall frosty cola, out
> to the park, birds chirping, sun shining, pretty girls strolling by
> displaying their wares, oooooh life… is… goooooood.
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> Scenario 2: Same crazy-starving hungry, same Burger King, but this time
> stay in the parking lot, throw the whole mess in a portable blender, two
> minutes on frappe.  Drink.
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> From the point of view of the stomach, either scenario delivers the same
> materials in the same proportions in roughly the same state more or less.
> But the brain would perceive those two scenarios very differently.  In
> scenario 2, it would likely compel the stomach to barf, even if it ever got
> that far.
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> For people who didn’t grow up slamming such delectable viands, the
> scenario 1 meal might be as distasteful to
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> as the scene 2 frapped version is to me.  It is the same food either way,
> just two different brains.  They would even have the same name for it, but
> the two brains would perceive it very differently.
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> Rather than get to the point I was trying to make, by merely writing the
> above scenarios, I have made myself lust for a big greasy value meal and
> the prandial jocularity in the local park for a pleasant scenario 1.
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> spike
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